You are sometimes very forcibly reminded of the story of the traveller, who said that the terms of a certain hotel out west were four dollars per day, with meals and lodging extra.
On the local boats your ticket includes nothing but your passage; meals and berths are extras.
In first-class fare, where tickets are bought at the agencies, meals and rooms are included.
But after paying full rates, we were told that we had only secured the privileges of the cabin, and must pay extra for meals and berths.
He pays a small rental and takes his meals where he likes; in the smaller towns the master of the Khan will supply him with food, but not so in the large cities.
They sat down at the old table at which Dalrymple had eaten his solitary meals so often, more than twenty years earlier.
Between meals she amused herself with bird seed, but preferred a meaty mutton-bone, which she would hold in one hand or foot and feed on with great satisfaction.
A maid had been assigned to look exclusively after her wants, and she could have her meals served in her room or else have them with the family as she liked.
But Shirley, not caring to encounter Mr. Ryder's cold, searching stare more often than necessary, said she would prefer to take hermeals alone.
She built a little fire in the studio; she brought his light meals to him in his arm-chair before it.
But he gathered that she found it more convenient to take her meals in private.
Each student had a separate room, and all had their meals together in a common hall.
He said that he expected some of the boys back that day; that when they came, he should wish me to take my meals with them, but that meanwhile he would be glad if I would breakfast with him and his wife.
The cottage is quite close to our present camp, and we go in for meals when it's very wet.
A dollar and a quarter a week, and you can get your meals where you please.
From the other side of the passage, or wide corridor, opened the rooms in which the meals were served up; and here we may observe that the food allowed the inmates of Bethlem Hospital is both excellent in quality and abundant in quantity.
Besides, divide those rations into three parts, and you will find that the three meals are little enough for men toiling hard from sunrise to sunset.
He never ate anything between meals himself, not even fruit; but he amused himself by seeing others do so, aye, and to bursting.
At both meals there were more dishes in the French style than in the Spanish, or even the Italian.
Her table, that she had loved to excess, became the most frugal; her fasts multiplied; she would interrupt her meals in order to go and pray.
He took his meals in the coach, ate very little, was alone at night, but with good precautions taken.
Mademoiselle Choin went on fete-days to hear mass in the chapel at six o'clock in the morning, well wrapped up, and took her meals alone, when Monseigneur did not eat with her.
She partook of few meals in private, at which she did not get so drunk as to lose consciousness, and to bring up all she had taken on every side.
I only worked him hard enough to make the meals seem a long ways apart and the mattress feel good.
Then I reckon the Boss asked the Lady Brigandess if she'd missed any meals lately.
It was some months before he took his meals regularly.
But even so I can never give you such good meals as you give me.
At no time had anyone else taken meals in his house, except by law entitled.
Here he lived happily, fishing his meals out of the river or snaring them out of the sky.
Besides, I vould have de free meals from you as de son-in-law, not de Schnorrer.
In that relation I should also have free meals from you," rejoined Manasseh.
At meals I would not be interrupted, ate off two plates, and conversed with my friend in loud tones.
Den I have a lot o' meals given me--dis, I have reckoned, is as good as seven pounds.
And, indeed, the fasts of the religion were worth much more to him than to Yankele; his meals were so profuse that his savings from this source were quite a little revenue.
I presume you will not be taking your meals in public?
You better send cookee word to bring your meals to yuh, Tex.
He counted three mealsfor every day, at an average of fifty cents for each meal.
That he wasn't so absent-minded at meals and other times, but seemed to know we were there--Cousin Grace and I.
No namby-pamby everyday living of dishes and dusting and meals and babies for me.
We had even to use much entreaty before they would take themeals we had prepared for them.
Our meals being finished, we arranged that the greatest part of the things should be carried to the pines the next day; and, after reading the evening service retired to bed full of hope.
Our meals at this period were always scanty, and we were occasionally restricted to one in the day.
Of all the Honourable Mess, practically only Uncle Podger and the China Doll remained and came to meals as before.
No," said Henry Speny shortly; "I'm a half dozen meals behind the game myself.
You can get two meals and a bed for sawing one-sixteenth of a cord of wood.
If you can beat the meals you used to dish up in the old times, sure you must be a wonder.
The following obesity rules will prove very helpful to my correspondent who signs herself, Miss Rosy Round: Stand up for twenty minutes after meals (if you must have meals).
Rags wrote me that Sleepy was drinking no water with his meals and eating no potatoes, trying to fall off," I ventured when I could get a word in edgewise.
Never drink water with your meals, but between meals do nothing but drink water, all the time that you can spare from the gymnastics that must be kept up to keep down the disfiguring fat.
Mr. Mell took hismeals with the boys, but Mr. Sharp dined and supped at Mr. Creakle's table.
After all these occasions Mrs. Micawber made a little treat, which was generally a supper; and there was a peculiar relish in these meals which I well remember.
When Mr. and Miss Murdstone were at home, I took my meals with them; in their absence, I ate and drank by myself.
I now humbly beg you to give me the money with which to buy meals for you to eat.
They had two meals with Carol's sister, and were bored, and felt that intimacy which beatifies married people when they suddenly admit that they equally dislike a relative of either of them.
There is a gentleness that seems to soothe this selfish elf And, Oh, I like to eat those meals that Nellie gets herself!
Our mealswere passed in to us through an open space near the level of the floor, at the upper end of the cage, where a bar had been removed for that purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: allotment; allowance; board; fare; meal; mess; rations
